Scott Edward Anderson received the 1997 Nebraska Review Award and
won the 1998 Larry Aldrich Emerging Poets Competition, chosen by Thomas
Lux. He has been a semi-finalist for the "Discovery"/The Nation award
three times in the past four years. He also serves as an Associate Poetry
Editor with the Painted Bride Quarterly.

Kelly Bancroft coordinates an arts partnership between a local
university and two inner-city schools. She has won an Ohio Arts council
Individual Artists Award and a Ragdale Fellowship. Her poetry and fiction
has appeared in West Branch, Mudfish, Icon, Literal Latte, and
others.

Anselm Berrigan is the author of Integrity & Dramatic Life
(Edge, 1999). A second book of poems is due in 2001, also from Edge. He
currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Recent work has appeared in The World,
Boston Book Review, and Prosodia.

Melanie Bogue has poems currently in or forthcoming in Denver
Quarterly, Fence, Passages North, Pleiades, PifMagazine, and
Another Chicago Magazine.

Janet Buck has two poems
nominated for this years Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Her poetry, poetics,
and fiction have appeared in hundreds of magazines worldwide. She is one
of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the "One Heart, One World" Exhibit
at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City in April, 2000.

Jose Chaves currently lives in Bogota Columbia where he is working
on translations for an anthology of Latin-American poetry. His own work
has recently appeared in Highbeams, The Alsop Review, Jeopardy,
helicoptero, and Timberline. When not in Columbia he lives in
Portland, Oregon, where he teaches Spanish and Creative Writing.

Lisa Chi Chen is a public interest media consultant who lives and works in San Francisco.

Nathalie Chicha was born in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Providence, RI. Her recent studies include French philosophy and film, and at present she is exploring hypertext fiction. This is her first publication.

Brendan Connell lives in New York and California where he
translates texts from the Tibetan and Sanskrit. He has just finished his
first novel, as well as a collection of short stories. His translations
have been published in Literature of Asia, Africa and Latin America
(Prentice Hall 1999). He has both fiction and poetry forthcoming, or
already published, in a number of literary journals and zines, including
RE:AL, The Journal of Liberal Arts, Tabu, Devil
Blossoms, Poetic Voices, Frisson and Lethologica.

Colette DeDonato received an MFA in Poetry from SFSU in 1995. She
currently lives in NYC where is putting together a book-length collection
of her poems, Excerpts from the Present Moment.

Gregory Djanikian directs the undergraduate creative writing
program at the University of Pennsylvania. His fourth book of poems
Years Later was published in 2000 by Carnegie Mellon Press.

David Floyd is originally from Philadelphia and a graduate of the
Culinary Institute of America. He is currently a student in the M.F.A.
program at the University of Alabama. His poetry has appeared in
Paragraph, Quarter After Eight, and Helitrope.

Jeffrey Gianelli is a twenty-three year old student at San
Francisco State University. His work has appeared in Voice and
other magazines. He is currently at work on his first novel.

Matt Hart is from near Manchester, England. He's a PhD student at
Penn and is currently writing a disseration on modernism and synthetic
vernacular poetry. Poems forthcoming in PhillyTalks Newsletter,
Kenning and Lipstick 11. Shout out to the Whampstead Massive.

Mytili Jagannathan lives, works and plays in Philadelphia. She has
new poems in Combo, Interlope, Salt, and Xcp: Cross-Cultural
Poetics. She recently co-edited a forum on gender and critical style
for How2 (# 4), an e-journal of feminist poetics.

Robert Kendall is the author of the book A Wandering City
(winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize) and a
book-length work of hypertext poetry published by Eastgate Systems. His
poetry has appeared in a wide variety of print and web magazines--
including Iowa Review, Cortland Review, Contact II, Indiana Review,
River Styx, and New York Quarterly-- as well as in several
anthologies. He is the recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Fellowship, a New Forms Regional Grant, and other awards. He teaches
creative writing for the New School University and runs the literary Web
site Word Circuits.

Brian Kreydatus says, "any image I make through painting,
printmaking, or drawing must have a feel for the skin's meaty physically,
it's vulnerability, its poignantly beautiful imperfections and the
inherent emotional confrontation that occurs when we are presented with
these basic truths of the human condition." He teaches printmaking and
drawing at the University of Pennsylvania and the Washington Studio
School.

Sharon Krinsky's poetry appears in various journals, including the
Brooklyn Review, Paragraph, Renegade, Beet, and Poetry New
York. Her work has also been published in Best American Poetry 1992,
twenty stories by eighteen authors, and the chapbook The Ruddy
Duck. She lives in New York City where she is an editor and librarian.

Dorianne Laux is the author of three collections of poetry from BOA
Editions: Awake (1990), What We Carry (1994), and Music
in the Morning (Spring 2000). She is also co-author, with Kim
Addonizio, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing
Poetry (Norton), and is Associate Professor and Director of the
University of Oregon's Program in Creative Writing. She also judged this
year's AWP Poetry competition for a first book of poems.

Jeffrey Loo has a chapbook forthcoming from Ashland Press (Ashland,
Ohio, 2001) and recently published in Barrow Street, Green Mountains
Review, Many Mountains Moving, Crab Orchard Review, rampike, Southern
Poetry Review and others. His work is also featured on a mural in
Chinatown, thanks to the Mural
Arts Program of Philadelphia, and his ms., identity papers has
been a semi-finalist or a finalist at Copper Canyon, New Issues, etc. He
won the tenth annual City Paper writing award for poetry. He chairs
the Board of the Asian Arts Initiative of Philadelphia and teaches
Creative Writing at Community College of Philadelphia.

Andy Morgan lives in New Hampshire. He served as editorial
assistant for Verse, and his poems have appeared in Slope.

Elaine Margolin is a New York City based freelance writer of
essays, book reviews, and short stories. She is also a frequent
contributor to Book Magazine - The Magazine of the Reading Life.
Her recent work has appeared in several publications including Inside
Magazine, American Book Review, Chattahoochee Review,
Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, Jewish
Currents, and Writer to Writer.

Todd Marrone grew up in
Yardley, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a degree in Art Education from
Kutztown University and teaches middle school art at Lower Merion in
Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Frank Matagrano's most recent work has appaered in Melic
Review and Stirring: A Literary Journal. Pudding House
Publishing, a small press in Ohio, will be publishing a chapbook of his
poems entitled "Moving Platform" in late 2000. Currently, he resides in
New York.

Robert Miltner is an Assistant Professor of English at Kent State
University where he teaches creative writing, American Literature, and
composition. His poems have most recently been published in Barrow
Street, key satch(el), Prose Poem: An International Journal, and
The New York Quarterly. He is also the author of three poetry
chapbooks: On the Off-Ramp (Implosion Press), The Seamless
Serial Hour (Pudding House), and Against the Simple (Kent State
University Press) which won the Wick Chapbook Award.

Alice Oh's most recent exhibition was in October at the Nexus
Foundation in Philadelphia.

Ethan Paquin's poems and reviews are forthcoming in The Boston
Review, Quarterly West, Stand, LIT, Verse and Meanjin, among
other journals. He edits Slope and
teaches in the writing program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Peter Rock is the author of novels This Is the Place
(Anchor, 1997) and Carnival Wolves (Anchor, 1998). He received a BA
in English from Yale University and has held a two-year Wallace Stegner
Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at Stanford and
Yale, and currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. His
freelance writing has appeared in Philadelphia Magazine, The New
York Times Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere.
He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Ella Vining, who is a medical
student at Penn.

Michael Rothenberg lives in Pacifica, CA. He is a poet, songwriter
and publisher of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry
and everything else, and co-editor of JACK Magazine. His poems have
appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Zyzzyva, Sycamore Review,
Cortland Review and many other publications. Most recently he is
editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin
Putnam, Inc.). He has published several books of poems including
Nightmare of the Violins, What the Fish Saw and Favorite
Songs. He is also the author of the novel Punk Rockwell
(Tropical Press). His book of poems The Paris Journals will be
available this coming Fall from Fish Drum, Inc.

Derek D. White is a technical writer by trade, who has also
completed two novels and two screenplays. He has had short stories
published in the Portsmouth Portfolio, The Climbing Art,
Jaunt, Nubrite
Solutions, and Wings.

Mark Wisniewski's novel, Confessions of a Polish Used Car
Salesman, reviewed favorably by the Los Angeles Times and
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is in its second printing, and he
recently won a Pushcart Prize. Short stories of his are
published/forthcoming in magazines such as The Gettysburg Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction International, The Yale Review, American Short Fiction, Paris Transcontinental, Sequoia: Stanford University's Literary Magazine, River Styx, and Fiction. His collection of short stories, All Weekend
With the Lights On (Leaping Dog Press, 2001), is due out in
January.

Scott Wolven currently holds a fellowship in creative writing at
Columbia University, where he has studied under the novelist Raymond
Kennedy. In 1999, Wolven was awarded the J.R. Humphreys Fellowship in
Creative Writing from Columbia. His fiction has appeared in
Permafrost and Emerging
Voices Online and is forthcoming in Mississippi Review,
HandHeldCrime, and Plots With
Guns. Very special thanks to Professor Alan Ziegler and Leslie
Woodard, Associate Director.

Becky Young began her artistic career in 1962 creating photographs
of the body by observing Woman as Object and Woman as Subject. From 1980 -
1987 she continued the series with Woman in Relationship and Woman in the
Natural World. With the death of her twin sister in 1988 she began working
in multimedia. These images are excerpts from a series of twelve
"Illuminations" made at the time of her death.